Many of us have asked ourselves in the past few days: can you really falsely remember something as significant as being in a helicopter that was shot down? And many of us probably think “No way,” and quickly…

Police often rely on witnesses to finger the right guy, but eyewitnesses are far from perfect.
Lineup image via www.shutterstock.com.November 30, 2014

Twenty eyewitnesses testified before the grand jury investigating the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. None of these accounts is fully consistent with any other. Moreover, eyewitnesses…

Research shows that our memories are not direct representations of past occurrences.
Flickr/khariedFebruary 5, 2014